Director Douglas Sirk’s 1952 No Room for the Groom is a frothy light comedy centring on GI Alvah Morrell (Tony Curtis) eloping to marry Lee Kingshead (Piper Laurie) in Las Vegas before she has had […]
Director Peter K Smith’s 1985 film No Surrender is a tough, dark-shaded comedy from writer Alan Bleasdale, who is after a metaphor for the Irish troubles in his tale of a murky Liverpool nightclub where […]
Director Peter Frazer-Jones’s 1980 comedy George and Mildred is a fairly dismal film version of the popular British TV comedy show (1976-80) with Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy as the Ropers, whose anniversary package trip […]
Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1954 comedy Casanova’s Big Night stars Bob Hope, who is on tip-top form in his accustomed persona of cowardly braggard, in this case a tailor’s apprentice, Pippo Popolino, pretending to be […]
Producer Alexander Korda’s 1937 British black and white adventure film Elephant Boy about an Indian boy called Toomai, who discovers a huge herd of elephants in the jungle, was a big hit and made a […]
Director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1989 Mexican horror thriller/ drama Santa Sangre is a highly offensive shocker masquerading as an art film, though nevertheless it is admired for its dementedly weird ideas and crazily surreal visuals. Axel […]
‘The definitive cult spaghetti Western.’ ‘The legendary cult classic.’ ‘The film that shocked America with its sex and violence.’ Writer-director Alejandro Jodorowsky [Alexandro Jodorowsky]’s peculiar, surreal, heavily allegory-laden 1970 Mexican spaghetti Western film El Topo […]
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